Chapter 620: The Mass Grave (Part II)
Dozens of ghost-headed broadswords flashed with dazzling light in the winter sun, and the people present were shocked one by one. These sharp weapons used for execution and beheading www.biquge.info are now in the hands of dozens of burly men with oily faces.
In front of them, hundreds of unkempt captives, covered in mud and dust, knelt before the executioners like sifting chaff and tied up like rice dumplings. Although the clothes on his body were covered with mud, there were also many holes, which were obviously torn open when he escaped. However, it is still very clear that the texture of the muslin cotton robe and the cocoon silk cotton jacket comes.
This is the backbone of Song Huxing's department at or above the intermediate level who was captured by the Linyi garrison.
The prisoners of the brigade were opposite them, and the soldiers of the Ninth Garrison Brigade were holding spears and broadswords, and they were confined in a group of dozens of people with firearms.
The female students of the Qin Law School, who wore warm hats on their heads and wore strips of red and yellow cloth wrapped around their shoulders as identification marks, were completely raised their eyebrows today. They walked through the crowd with three or five soldiers, like butterflies, looking for familiar faces in the captives.
However, he was not looking for relatives, but for the landlords and gentry who had long been registered by Wu Xing and others and were entrenched in various villages and towns.
These girls, sent out of their homes (?) Or kicked out? When I applied for the Qin Law School, I just wanted to find a place where I could eat well, how could I have thought that I would have such a majestic time today? In his hands, he holds the power of life and death of others.
From time to time, a girl's eyes lit up, and from the crowd she found the lord of a wealthy gentleman in her village or town, or a dog's leg. They frowned, and several wolf-like soldiers immediately rushed into the crowd, pulled the unlucky man out, and threw him into the group of prisoners who were being held in a key prison.
"Phew! The villain has the ambition, and the dog fights the human power! What is it! A man who looked like a bookkeeper squatted on the ground and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground. When the people around him heard this, they moved away from him as if they were avoiding the plague, and tried to stay away from him, so as not to be affected by him.
A small blank space suddenly appeared in the crowd, which immediately attracted the attention of several female students, and they immediately rushed here with people.
The bookkeeper, who had been carried out of the captives like chickens by several big men, struggled with all his might, trying to maintain his dignity in his clothes, and cursed incessantly.
"Humph! said that once the villain got his will, he would run rampant. Aren't you guys just as majestic when you attacked the city the day before yesterday!? Song Qiaomei rushed over when she heard the sound, sneered, and slapped the bookkeeper in front of her in the face. Without looking closely, she recognized that this person was the right-hand man of Song Huxing, the master of the Song family. What big buckets in, small buckets out, nine out of thirteen returns, in addition to renting, but also to provide wheat grass, forage, to the Song family to give them white work and other tricks, are all this person's handiwork.
The face was slapped by Song Qiaomei's slap and it hurt hotly, there were a lot more things in his mouth, and there was a fishy and salty smell mixed with it, Mr. Bookkeeper knew that it must have been knocked out of those teeth in his mouth.
"Alas! Born in the last days, Sven swept the floor, chaotic ministers and thieves were rampant, and the chicken was in the morning! If I had entered the city the day before yesterday, I don't think it would have been like this! ”
His thoughts returned to the day before yesterday, when Song Huxing and others organized people to pounce on Linyi City.
Although the cannon in Song Huxing's hand is small in caliber, the cannonball is light, and the gunner's shooting skills are even more rookies among rookies, but fortunately, their target is the city wall of Linyi, and the purpose is to cheer themselves up, and they belong to the kind of gunners who fight wherever they want. As long as you hit the edge of the city wall, you can shout loudly!
It is a pity that these cannons have weak power and light shells, and the gunners do not dare to get too close to the city wall, and often the shells fly to the city wall weakly, and they only smash a hole in the city wall.
However, even such artillery fire made Song Huxing's rabble very excited, and they kept waving their flags and shouting, waving the weapons in their hands and shouting.
"Kill! Kill into Linyi City, don't seal the knife for three days! ”
"Kill! Kill all the corrupt officials and cool officials! ”
These officials and gentry usually hate all kinds of rogue poles, but they have no knowledge of how to become those cruel and tyrannical rogues in their mouths, and they can reach the state of Yuan Ying soaring all of a sudden. As for killing corrupt officials and cool officials, hehe, I'm sorry, these people seem to be a family with corrupt officials and cool officials! At that moment, several leaders each brandished their swords and commanded their men to rush towards the Linyi city wall.
"Kill corrupt officials and cool officials!"
The roaring crowd rushed forward with shouts, and for a while, several sections under the Linyi city wall were quickly covered by those rebels wrapped in various colored turbans.
"Hey, hey! Well done! He Fengshan, who was holding a telescope on the city wall and observing the rebel team, sneered, and calculated the distance between the rebel team and the city wall through a reference object that only he knew.
"Five hundred steps."
"Four hundred steps."
"Three hundred steps!"
As he observed, his mouth was still silently chanting and calculating.
"Your Excellency, give the order to fire! It's our cannon that has a good range! Lan Yinggui, the battalion officer of the artillery battalion of the Ninth Brigade, looked at the rebels from far and near with some impatience.
Behind the two of them, dozens of guns of different calibers and weights, six-pounder guns, eight-pounder guns, generals, franc machines, and so on, were lined up.
The gunners stood energetically in front of each gun position, holding their heads high, holding arquebuses, pushers and other objects in their hands, ready to enter the firing state at any time.
"It's good! Artillery ready! ”
After a slight distance, Lan Yinggui didn't have to deliberately aim, the lethality of the artillery was huge for these chaotic teams under the city.
"Fire!"
In the midst of the rumbling of cannons, several cannons were ejected.
The first wave of shells, the first to catch the shot, were all six-pounder and eight-pounder shells. This type of artillery is now the main equipment of the first-level units of the Nanyue Military Brigade, especially the troops with local garrison tasks such as the garrison brigade, which are mainly six-pounder guns and eight-pounder guns.
As soon as the first six-pounder shell landed, it stirred up a wave of blood in the chaotic and dense formation of the rebels. Bouncing and jumping on the frozen hard ground, piercing from the front to the back of the formation, I don't know how many people's arms and thighs were taken along the way, penetrating and smashing the chests and heads of many people, and after the flesh alley, there was a terrible scream.
Another eight-pound solid iron ball smashed into a ladder that was pushed forward by dozens of people, and with a loud "boom", the entire structure of the ladder was shattered and the wheels flew wildly. Heavy timber was lifted and rolled off. The surrounding rebels screamed incessantly, and they were beaten by various fragments, iron components, and sharp wooden thorns on the ladder, and their flesh and blood were blurred, and they all rolled to the ground and howled.
With a whistling sound, cannonballs smashed into the ranks of the rebels, or heavy solid iron balls passed through the formation, bringing up a mist of blood from the stumps. Or a dense stream of shotguns hit the charging team head-on, tearing the entire body of the bandits who rushed in front of them to pieces.
Smoke rose from the cannon emplacements on the city walls, and a wave of fiery solid iron balls roared away.
These cannonballs swept over the city walls, drawing a beautiful trajectory in the air, and smashed into the rebel army below the city, bringing up pieces of flesh and mutilation, or fragments of wheels of various equipment.
Carried by shells, it is the tragic appearance of flesh and blood, broken hands and feet, that is, the regular army of the Ming army may not be able to hold on, the main components of these rebels are tenant farmers who were coerced and coerced in the four townships, and most of the backbone are thugs, regimental training, bandits and other roles raised by the gentry, military discipline is nothing, from top to bottom with a big heart to enter Linyi City, where is this psychological endurance?
Every time a wave of artillery shells came, there was a violent commotion, and it was only by the desperate threat and whipping of the backbone at all levels, and even the pressure of the killing bombs, that they could barely maintain the momentum of continuing to move forward, but the speed had been greatly reduced.
"Brother Hu Xing! That's not going to work! Our team has too few artillery, so it's not a way to advance under artillery fire! ”
"Panic what! Nanban's artillery is not too Shanglaojun's Dan furnace, and you have to stop for a while after firing a few shots, otherwise you have to blow up! When he can't open fire, our brigade will rush forward! ”
Song Huxing refuted the squire's opinion very disapprovingly, and continued to shake the order flag, urging the rebels to move on.
However, the constant rumbling of cannons at the head of the city made the rebel team move more and more slowly, not to mention, the whole team became more and more sparse, and many people deliberately slowed down and dragged behind.
"The Nanban of the straight lady thief! Ferocious! Song Huxing was also helpless, gritted his teeth, and under the tight protection of dozens of bodyguards, he rode his horse straight to the city from the rear.
"The commander of the Linyi Volunteer Army, Chongzhen Township in the eighth year of the trial of Song, please Wu Xing come out to speak!"
There was a loud bang on the top of the city, and hundreds of fire guns appeared on the battlements at the head of the city, and the dense black holes made the rebels under the city take a few steps back.
"Bastard! Eater! ”
The leaders of Song Qinhua's subordinates picked up their whips and beat the rebels who were retreating fiercely, but they also moved a few steps under their feet.
At the opening of the city gate, a guard guard escorted Wu Xing out of the city.
"I am Wu Xing. Opposite is the Song leader? ”
Wu Xing's words pierced Song Qinhua with bones. The secret flavor in the words was to put him and Song Jiang in Liangshanbo back then in the same position.
Song Huxing didn't care about the thorn in Wu Xing's words, so he just pointed with the horsewhip in his hand: "Wu Xing, you are also a scholar, you should know how to read the book of Confucius and Mencius, and the gift of Zhou Gong." Through the gift of Zhou Gong, and then uphold the way of self-denial and revenge of the holy master, only then can three generations of prosperity be realized. And you disobeyed the teachings of the saints, recruited female students, ** exceeded, and extorted tyranny, and exploited the people. Aren't you afraid that you will see the sages and holy teachers of the past generations in the future, and you will have no face to face it? ”
Wu Xing sneered: "Song Huxing, you are still famous in vain!" What are the qualities of reading! Could it be that you can't buy your fame?! It is precisely because I have read the book that I do not believe that there are three generations of prosperity. According to Master Yongxin's "Dragon Bone Inscription Examination", the so-called three generations of prosperity are nothing more than the prosperity of the barefoot people with broken hair and tattoos! Confucius and Mencius talked about survival and death, and Keer and others were not loyal to Qin and Han. The Book of Poetry talks about Sangjian Pushang, and you don't play with the group! Which one is disrespectful to the ancestors? As for saying that I recruit female students*** If it weren't for you and others who forced men in the clan to not come to the Qin Law School, why would I recruit a bunch of skirts to get suspicious. And even if I am like this, it is just in response to the benevolence of Confucius and Mencius, and I will not be ashamed to see my ancestors, but I can also proudly say that I am a filial son and grandson. ”
"Bold Wu Xing! You even dare to slander your ancestors, it must be because of your family style. After all, your family is not a family of poetry and books like us, so naturally there is no need to pickle it. Song Huxing's face was so angry with Wu Xing's words that he was speechless. He could only point his finger at Wu Xing and scold angrily.
"What you say is reasonable, I am from a small people, my parents died early, and I have no brothers and sisters, even if I want to do that trick, I can't do it. Unlike Er, there are many mothers, sisters are like clouds, and there are few mulberry trees and plum fields. Of course, you don't call it messy, but the pleasure of the rich. Let's just say that you Song Qinhua, didn't you say in front of your family Cuihua, this kind of thing is done by Duke Qi Huan, and you will do it? ”
The lethality of this call to Song Qinhua is no less than the volley of artillery on the head of the city! He now regrets that he is very sorry, why did he come out to greet Wu Xing, this broom star, come out to speak?! Isn't it like your head has been crushed by a stone grinder?!
In the eyes of the world, the absurdity of Duke Qi Huan has long been overshadowed by his great achievements in honoring the princes of Jiuhe, as well as his extremely bleak old age. In fact, the lustful deeds of this Jiang Xiaobai Qi Huan are also speckled in the official history. There are only six people in the harem who have sons and status, such as Mrs., and I don't know how many others have no sons or have sons without status. Moreover, when he was still a son, he and his sisters had a mess of what was wrong with him.
The genes were passed down. So much so that later, when Meng Ke met King Qi Xuan of the Tian family, who had already changed the dynasty, two famous idioms were born, "the widow is sick" and "the widow is lustful". This is probably also the spread of this Qi Huan Gong! Anyway, Tian Chang was in phase, and there were hundreds of concubines in the harem, and his guests and housekeepers couldn't help but enter the harem. By the time Tian Chang died, there were more than 70 sons. Maybe that son is Jiang Qi's bloodline inheritance.
"The historical records of Confucius said that Confucius was born from the union of Su and Yan's daughter, and prayed to Confucius in Niqiu. Uncle Liang Su was born in the field with a woman, why don't you follow the example of King Qisheng and the Holy Ancestor Master and Son, and have a great time in the field? ”
Wu Xing gave full play to the characteristics of nonsense, and in his words, to deal with these well-dressed beasts, he would be three times more scoundrels than them. Rao was so angry that Wu Xing's eyes turned black for a while, but Song Qinhua was also speechless.
Wu Xing's words, regardless of that sentence, are well documented, from Confucian classics or historical materials. Although it was for His Holiness, the Master's origin was like this, a sixty-six-year-old nobleman and a teenage woman gave birth to him. (Huh?) The unkind author has a little idea, compared to the uncle of Qisheng Wang Liang Su, the eighty-two-year-old scholar who married the twenty-eight-year-old, but it is far behind! You know, more than 2,000 years ago, people's life expectancy and physical health were far worse than today's. People can still give birth to the Holy Master at the age of sixty-six, what about him? For so many years, it seems that only in the paragraph is that his wife is pregnant. )
To put it nicely, his mother married Shu Liang Su as a concubine, and it was ugly to say, but I am afraid that this old man got on the bus first on a whim and then made up the ticket. However, according to Chinese folklore, children born in this way are often good. Not to mention far away, isn't the fourth master who has been suave in countless jokes and dramas also the product of his rush to ship after drinking deer blood?
Therefore, what people lack, they will pay special attention to. Confucius has such a background, so in his academic theory system, he frantically emphasizes etiquette, and governing the country also advocates self-denial and revenge. This is different from another illegitimate child in the West hundreds of years later, the Jesus who was born in a manger and didn't know who his father was, and Jesus, a fatherless child, was crazy because he didn't have a father, so he frantically didn't allow others to recognize his ancestors.
Taking advantage of Song Qinhua and Wu Xing's scolding, several leaders under him also took advantage of this rare gap to tidy up the originally chaotic team, and at the same time, moved dozens of ladders from the camp to the front of the formation. Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Song Qinhua was about to find some righteous and bright reason to scold Wu Xing for a few words, and then turned his horse back into his camp and commanded his men and horses to continue to attack the city. In the future, it will also be a good story of a lupine scarf denouncing the thief chieftain. However, a fast horse galloped in the rebel camp.
The horse slowed down as it crossed the rebel array, slowly passing through the crowd, and then rushed towards Song Qinhua frantically.
"Sir! Come on! Take our people with you! Wu Xing, the dog thief, used Linyi City to hang us, he quietly sent troops out of Linyi and copied our back road! In addition, the Lumahong in Jinan City is also less than fifty miles away from Linyi! ”
"So what are you waiting for!? Let these fools rush up and attack the city first, and we will withdraw immediately! ”
The old man Song with the name Hu Xing on the front foot left with a group of his cronies on the grounds of temporarily returning to the camp to rest, and the main offensive of the rebel main force on Linyi on the back foot began.
However, as soon as the first wave of charges was counterattacked, a bad news came from the camp: "Master! Master! Song Huxing, the son of a bitch, took his own people, rolled up the silver money and ran away! ”
"Sir! Master! Kuang Haishan led people to kill from behind us! Let's run! ”
"Sir! Lu Ma Hong's barbarian soldiers are only thirty miles away from us! ”
For a time, the defeat was like a mountain.
In the wilderness, there are rebels scurrying around like hornets that have been burned in their hives. The rebel leaders, who were still majestic just now, rode on their horses and mules, and cursed as they fled, "You damn Song Huxing! When there is a good thing, you run faster than a donkey, and when there is a disaster, you are the first to run! I also swept away the money of Lao Tzu! ”
At the head of the city, watching the tens of thousands of rebel teams collapse in an instant, just like the scene when the fish in the fish pond are knocked out of the water by a net, Wu Xing knows that it is Kuang Haishan who led the team to cut off the retreat of the rebels and formed an encirclement posture against these tens of thousands of people.
"He Fengshan! Take our watchmen and get out! Take the sentry as a unit and capture prisoners for your own officer! Catch the rebels! ”
Behind it is the watch team led by He Fengshan, like a sparse mesh but well-targeted net, and in front of him is a large net composed of more than 10,000 people and horses who have been copied by Kuang Haishan head-on. On the left and right flanks, the two battalions of Dongfan soldiers who arrived in advance kept compressing the space of the rebels.
The so-called exhaustion and fishing.
Thus, the opening scene appeared. Except for Song Huxing who escaped with dozens of cronies, almost all the gentry of Qingzhou Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion were captured.
"Sir, what to do with these traitors, I will listen to Sir." As night fell, Lu Mahong rushed to Linyi with the main force. Seeing the groups of captives squatting, sitting or kneeling next to the dotted fires, I couldn't help but admire Wu Xing very much!
"In this way, the official has trespassed!" In fact, Wu Xing had already ordered people to dig several big pits in the west of Linyi City.
This place name later had a very terrifying name, "Mass Grave!" ”